MIDDLE EAST

The attacker fired several shots near the consulate and was killed by police. The incident occurred on the anniversary of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.

Israel’s demand to control the Philadelphi Corridor — a narrow strip of no man’s land — is a key issue in Gaza cease-fire talks.

Officials and experts in Lebanon say Israel’s assassination campaign against Palestinian militants has brought Hamas and Hezbollah closer together.

Frustrated mediators are now putting together what they have described as a “final offer,” but significant concessions on both sides are needed for agreement, said a U.S. official.

Netanyahu this week said Israel would not withdraw from the Gaza-Egypt border, while his chief negotiator told mediators the military would eventually pull out.

The U.K. is the latest country to suspend some weapons exports, amid scrutiny over military aid to Israel as the war in Gaza nears the one-year mark.

The Israeli leader’s critics argue he would rather prolong the war to assuage his far-right allies (and keep hold of power) than clinch a deal that stops hostilities and frees the remaining hostages.

The Israeli prime minister’s insistence that troops stay in the Philadelphi Corridor along the Gaza-Egypt border is scuttling chances of a deal, officials say.

Riad Salameh, who was once credited with reviving Lebanon’s post-civil-war economy, has since been blamed for the stunning collapse of its banking sector.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the decision to halt 30 of 350 arms export licenses was “shameful,” while Amnesty International called it insufficient.

Police detained 15 people after the assault. Video shows assailants shouting, “Yankee go home” and covering one Marine’s head in what looked like a white sack.

A new law requires municipalities to round up stray dogs and euthanize the ones that are feral. It has drawn outrage in a country where committed citizens have long cared for street animals.

After Hamas killed six hostages, Israel erupted in protests over Netanyahu’s policy of using the military rather than negotiations to recover the captives.

The move marks a shift for Britain and came as part of the new Labour government’s review of Israel’s compliance with international humanitarian law.

Israel is mourning six slain hostages who were abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7. The government estimates 64 hostages remain alive in Gaza.

The parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a dual Israeli and American citizen, had become public faces of the ordeal of the hostages taken by Hamas. Other American families of hostages fear time is running out for their loved ones.

Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli American, and five others Hamas took hostage on Oct. 7 were killed “shortly before” being found, the Israel Defense Forces said.

Israel permitted a “humanitarian corridor” for mass polio vaccinations in designated areas of Gaza, after the disease was detected there for the first time in 25 years.